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Article: From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England.(Review)
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- June 22, 2001
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From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England. By Margaret Ellen Newell. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 329. $39.95.)
New England was the source of not one, not two, but three revolutions. One was political, a revolution for independence from Great Britain. The second, some 50 years later, was industrial. The third, argues author Margaret Ellen Newell, occurred over a period of a century and a half in the hearts, minds, and economic behavior of New Englanders and explains the other two. With conviction and consistency, Newell develops her thesis that New England settlers, led by those in Massachusetts, ...